Since it is the holidays and there seems to be controversy about using a particular greeting has the (loosely used term) Christians in an uproar. Some are now preaching on the social media sites to all their friends. I really like to use social media with friends for happy things, events, pictures, etc. Why are these people deciding that in 2011 it is appropriate to bring society back to the 1920’s slurring their religious beliefs like they are trying to convert a flock. Did we not learn back then that pushing religion is inappropriate & has brought nothing but bad to society and should be kept private or amongst your fellow believers. Honestly it is out of hand and many of these thumpers (who most have not even read the violence in the bible) are going to be deleted. I don’t know why these people really need the support and validation of their friends towards their beliefs. It seems like a pathetic attempt towards acceptance and a crazy illusion of superiority for them. There are many great minds that believe the only reason one follows faith is so they don’t have to think for themselves or accept their mistakes. They simply have something farfetched faith to believe and to blame things on when they don’t go right.
Seriously, religion has only brought war, murder, bad feelings, isolation to people and cultures when it is being pushed on society. If you want to have a religious belief- have it. Just don’t push it on others that think you are just a weak minded person.
Politics and Religion are the two things that shouldn’t be in a fun filled social media arena. —Someone Who Wants to Bring the Fun Back to Social Media
This article appears in Dec 15-21, 2011.
So, this is you , OP?:
http://worldsstrongestlibrarian.com/wp-con…
I wasn’t aware that the Zuckerbergs of the world had gotten more vigorous in their marketing
Short version: Scroll or troll.
And for the record, those societies that have aggressively eschewed religion also have an impressive record of war, murder, bad feelings, and isolation of people and cultures to their credit.
Disclaimer: This is in no way to be interpreted as a defence of religion, rather a condemnation of humanity.
Sorry OB, but whethre you like it or not it’s CHRISTMAS. You get paid for the CHRISTMAS holiday. On the calander the 25th of December is CHRISTMAS DAY. So what part don’t you understand?
oh man admiral, i love that word. facebook=skynet, that was someone’s comment in the nyt
Oh fuck, Bro Tim is one of THEM! http://jordanhoffman.com/wp-content/upload… I’m surprised not only by the number of my friends who copy and paste that diatribe about holidays vs christmas but by WHO some of ones posting it are (but for some its no surprise)
The only people that give a fuck about the christmas vs holidays are the people that give a fuck about it, everyone else is, meh.
timothy is forbidden? ^^
So you don’t want to be preached to, but you feel the need to preach to us? Be friends with whom you want to be friends with on your face crack. Don’t complain about them. Look in the mirror. Direct your complaints to it.
what pisses me off way more than that is the ‘blah blah… bleeding heart….re-post if you feel the same way’
telling me what to post?
ummm, yanoway.
I noticed one of these on my list the other day – meh, I don’t really take it personally.
If she wants everyone to know she has a personal relationship with Jesus Christ _her saviour_ then that is ok.
Just don’t make him into _my_ saviour, because I had parents who respected me enough never to indoctrinate me into any cults! And I’m not regretting their wise decision…
So Merry Christmas! And all that jazz…
Cranky, I call a spade a spade. If I were in an Islamic country or India or Israel or anywhere else then their holidays are their holidays whether they be Ramadam, Haunaka (sp), or whatever. And here it is CHRISTMAS. It is what it is whether you like it or not.
In The People’s Democratic Republic of Canada –
“Appeasin’ – it’s the reason for the season.”
>; )
Good for you OB…you gotta mission to try & fulfill, bring all that fun “back’ (are you sure its back & not for the first time ?) to social media sites.
I just recently had a revelation…yep I to have a mission, a mission to bring Fun to funerals, seeing as the first 3 letters spell F U N, IMO its way past time for someone to see if all the sadness & crying can be removed, perhaps with balloon animals, & clowns for the kid’s, a beer tent & a live band for the adults.
Haven’t got it all figured out yet OB…its a work in progress, good luck with yours as well.
(hmmm I wonder if caskets will keep ice from melting too quickly…gotta have a way to chill the beer & they do have a lid)
I don’t believe in God- AT ALL- yet I can see how it is an integral part of living a life with meaning, for my friends who believe. It doesn’t offend me to acknowldge that. I get my Meaning of Life elsewhere.
You, Dearest OB, make non-believers sound like preachy assholes incapable of enduring other people who believe differently.
Go fuck yourself.
And Merry Christmas.
apparently it has two spellings tim, chanukah or hanukkah, begins at sunset on dec 20th http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDV_reO930A
Bro, all of the people I hear calling it the holidays are WASPS except for the two Jews I know. I know a few Muslims but it’s never come up. In my family we call it Christmas in the same way that we call sofas “chesterfields” and dressers “bureau drawers”, see what I mean?
BT, it’s also Ramadan, Hanukkah, and Kwanza, and probably a few others, thus the whole Happy Holidays. Yes Christmas is the national holiday but there are millions of Canadians, Canadian citizens mind you, who are celebrating other festive days.
If you want to say Merry Christmas great, I don’t see why people get bent out of shape over Happy Holidays. Why should either of those things be offensive to anyone? If someone gets pissed off being wished a happy holiday, what do they do when someone calls them an ugly douchewad jerkface? Talk about first world problems.
Some are now preaching on the social media sites to all their friends.
And this is your business because…..?
Surely you’ve heard of “hide all by”. It’s not necessary to delete everyone who has a different opinion. Unless you’re just as much of a passive-aggressive assclown as they are. Which it sort of sounds like you are. Just a pack of assclowns in a spamwar over semantics. *sigh* so 1993.
It’s also fucking Festivus. You don’t see me complaining.
http://copyranter.blogspot.com/2011/12/kiw…
Wouldn’t you have loved to have been a scorpion on the wall of the carpentry shop when teenage Jebus said to Joe:
“The kids at school say you’re not my real Dad”
It makes no difference to me whether we call it Christmas or the “holidays”. I get why Christians should be allowed to call it “Christmas” and why some people prefer to call it the “holidays” in view of the diversity of beliefs held in our society.
That said, a lot (not all) of Christians that I know celebrate the Christmas holidays through mass consumerism and hold fairly intolerant conservative values (e.g. “I hate them gays”), which seems to be in direct conflict with the values of the person whose birth they’re purportedly celebrating – communism, inclusion, peace & love and all that other hippie shit.
Clearly not all Christians do this, but I think some of them should think hard about how they celebrate Christmas before they publicly chastise other groups for their own way of celebrating or describing the “holidays” on social networking sites.
technically happy holidays is more accurate….
unless you’re purposely snubbing boxing day for some reason or another.
when the patron saint of fighting said,
“EVERYTHING’S ON SALE… GET WHATEVER SHIT YOU CAN BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY”
and we continue that brutal tradition to this day.
Who cares. Merry Christmas. Beware of certain religious groups bearing boxed gifts that tick.
Hay Ivan:
http://cdn.inquisitr.com/wp-content/2010/1…
ZOMG PK – That’s perfect. >: )
we need a dog http://ohgodmywifeisgerman.files.wordpress…
As a non-Christian I celebrate Christmas because my family did my whole life. I had a lovely gentleman from Pakistan(my cab driver 2 days ago) wish me a Merry Christmas.
My bottom line is, I don’t force my beliefs on oters who don’t share them. And having someone wish me a Happy Festivus/whatevs *isn’t* forcing their religious beliefs on me. In my eyes they are expressing the joy and feelings of THEIR holiday, and wishing me well, which doesn’t insult me.
That said, the sentiment is the important thing, and a Happy Holidays says the same thing as a Merry Christmas does. I try to be a good person year-round and treat others as i eould like to be etc, but the holidays do make me a bit moreso.
If I lived in Egypt for a year(a place I visited), I would love to experience the holidays there. I know not everyone feels like this, and prefers to only do their own holidays.
To each, their own.
I love the secular spirit of Christmas, as has evolved, of spending time with family, buying simple gifts/making simple gifts, playing games together, group meals, etc. It reminds me what I would like the rest of the year to be.
I’m going on too long about this. Hope I made a point somewhere in here!
xo
Wpaul
the Christmas Goose >pinch!<
“My bottom line is, I don’t force my beliefs on oters”
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-g50_VWW79Rk/TtAm…
“Hey there Mr. Bassist. Merry Fucking Christmas.
Have some shellfish and eggnog
and share them with the Missus…
Big shout outs to Painey and Thomas who both inspired this.
And yes, Wheelie, you made a great point there.
Oh dear…
No aggro here Rosie. My man Wheelie knows I never met a bad pun or a South Park reference that I didn’t like. I’m pretty much online with everything he said about the secular side of Christmas.
And otters are Aaaaaa -dorable http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epUk3T2Kfno
I like this one…
http://lolbyte.com/lols/jesus-no-i-am-not-…
Why would anyone care what the holidays (I mean that in the sense that I don’t have to work) are called. The whole purpose is to eat/drink to excess, visit with friends/family and laugh all the way to the bank with sweet “holiday” pay. I couldn’t care less what it’s called, as long as it’s a holiday!!!
I thought this was a bitch about someone complaining about how people complain about people saying holidays instead of xmas (oops, I didn’t)
Funny this was a bitch because I have been seeing all out wars on my FB feeds these days. All was fine until the atheists decided to post what they believe the season is to them. The Christ believers are not really respecting the atheists, interestingly. This is a two way street and I personally am enjoying watching the brawls in my news feeds. I guess religious fights can never be won from what I am seeing.
I personally do believe that all should be respected. However, people that use to post friendly posts now only post prayers and dictating that Jesus is the reason for the season. I wish they would say that Jesus is the reason for their season. Maybe that would cause less conflict, however I think conflict is what they are looking for sadly.
Happy Holidays!
When I see things on social media sites I don’t like … I scroll on by. Ditto on the Happy Holidays versus Merry Christmas debate … let folks call it what they want, and I’ll call it what I want … no matter what I call it, I’m still going to celebrate it as I always have. I have too much other crap going on in my life worthy of getting my panties in a bunch to let the small stuff bring me down.
In closing … uh hum …
“Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good night!”, exclaimed St. Nicholas ere he drove out of sight.
… ’cause that’s how I roll.
Here is the last word on this. Enjoy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZm0FekSWjQ
that was great timmy, “woodworking technician”
Do your good works in private. Our Father knows and sees and that is all the reward you require.
Likewise with celebrations of faith.
And you’ve got the date wrong so stop making such a fuss on that one day of the year.
Happy Holidays to one and all.
I love it when Christ the Birthday Boy chimes in and sets us all strait!! Thanks Birthday boy. 🙂
fuck all that bullshit o.p., the ones that drive me fucking nuts, are the fools on face crack book, that drop their religious ardor on the home page and wish all this gushy shit to everyone reading it. give us a fucking break hey, we don’t al believe in the flying speghetti monster or his/it’s associates.
You know who else was born the same day as JC? Lemmy.
http://blogs.seattleweekly.com/reverb/lemm…
OH MY GOD – WHAT IS HE GOING TO DO TO THAT POOR LAMB?
I think Robin Williams had it spot on:
“Jesus was an only child. Thank God! Who would want to be Jerry, the brother of Christ? That’s a tough gig.
‘Come on, Jerry, we’re going to the beach.’
‘Oh great Mom! Jesus’s gonna walk on the water, feed everybody, heal them and get a whole bunch of disciples; I’ll sit there with a rash and sand up my ass. Great day for me!’
He ends up in a bar at the age of 40 going: ‘Yeah, I’m Jerry Christ. Whoopty-do! Yeah, I healed somebody. Come here Spot, heel! Look at that!
Jesus is a carpenter, I’m a plumber. You do the math!’
And people say to me, ‘Jesus wasn’t Jewish’… of course he was Jewish! Thirty years old, single, living at home with his parents, come on!
Working in his father’s business, his mother thought he was God’s gift, he’s Jewish! Give it up!
It’s an old tradition!”
Pyurdedbrylyant Robin is.
so was the wildcat
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Harris_…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmnLrd8COEQ
Facebook can be a tool for great things like the Arab Spring. It isn’t just a place to post lolcat pics.
That said, I am sick of the “War on Christmas”. There are many December holidays, and I have no issues with people saying happy holidays etc… People were saying that long before PC thugs ever came into existence. What I take issue with is when there can be no more Christmas Concerts, no more saying Merry Christmas, and so on and so forth. I’m not saying Hannukah/Kwanzaa/Festivus doesn’t exist, and if people want to say happy Hannukah/Kwanzaa/Festivus, that’s cool, that’s what you celebrate. I can take PC to a certain degree, but when it passes the point of being logical, it just pisses me off.
“It’s OK Lisa, I’ve been called a greasy thug too” – Homer Simpson
it has some great uses littlest hobo, like finding lost dogs
3 people who viewed my mission to bring fun to funerals…likes it !
You sick bastards !
You’re my kinda people ~:)
http://www.buzzfeed.com/koolnewsblog/relig…
Well hell-ooo it’s CHRISTmas. There’s no Christ-mas without Christ.